Yes, you should go to the town hall. There is no sign when those of us with permanent residency that has expired will be able to apply for the new document. Meanwhile we have a paper that gives us indefinite leave to remain.

Make sure you take all the documents required.

I don't know if you can just turn up or whether you have to make an appointment.

Apparently the successor organisation to the SEF will send us a summons to go to their office. Those of us who obtained our receipt and 'permission to remain' paper last December are still waiting.

I got my email today and made an appointment on 16th Nov. Thats the good news , the bad news is the appointment is in Lisbon

You will already have regd so login in with your email and password

Richard

Albufeira residents have all received the call.

I cannot even log on to the website, passwords and attempts to reset passwords are rejected. Everyone I have spoken to over the weekend and yesterday say they will wait until the process can be done in Albufeira. I for one will not spend €50 on train fares to go to an office in Lisbon only to be told I have forgotten one of the six hundred pieces of information no doubt required,

While I appreciate that this whole farce is not the fault of the Portuguese people or authorities, but the 17 million gullible idiots who insisted "nothing will change if we leave the EU because they need us more than we need them",  this is not untypical of what I expected. The system clearly isn't set up properly for Albufeira yet, so why send out the messages? I imagine to meet some kind of promised deadline rather than admit they are not prepared.

To add to the stupidity (and this one is down to SEF and Portuguese authorities) they have decided not to accept the residencia form we were given last year at passport control anymore, even though they are of course fully aware that they have not even seen thousands of people yet, let alone issued their new cards...    

I heard yesterday of people who are booking to go to Lisbon and of someone else who travelled 50 miles to a processing centre to find the computers had crashed and nothing could be done.

This will be an exercise in patience for sure!

 I have heard residents of other Algarve towns now being offered Lisbon as well possibly due to the small uptake in Albufeira

I still cannot log on to the website and all attempts to re-set my password are greeted with 'Error recovering password, try again later'.

What happens to me if I cannot schedule an appointment?

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In a marvellous twist of irony, that link is not working...  

It will now. When you add a link it defaults to http:// so be careful to choose https:// if that's the reference and edit your link text.

Now, can anyone help me? I thought I was fairly computer literate but i am now stuck on this page when trying to schedule an appointment. I can see no way to select...

Can anyone who has succeeded give me a clue?

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Then select date then time.

Then you will get email confirmation.

It was designed however to make it as difficult as possible whilst appearing simple

I think you need to click on the box that looks vaguely like a calendar but more like a calculator and then all will be revealed.

Latest in the Portugal News at the weekend and from AFPOP was that we should not be worried about the so called window for applying. If we do not or cannot travel to Lisboa then we will be invited again later to a more local centre. The SEF also posted a powerpoint slideshow on you tube stressing that they had it covered at their 23 regional centres of which the Algarve has 4 in Lagos, Loule (both of which definitely were available for appointments until their schedule became full) and 2 at Quarteira and Faro which as far as I have read are figments of their imagination.

SEF also advised me by email that local appointments will be available in the 'future'.

Strange thing is that when I first investigated the system everything seemed to work as it should. I got as far as seeing that only Lisbon was available, so did not proceed.

Now when I click on that box next to my name, nothing happens. I tried with Javascript on and off and with adblock off, still nothing, but I will give it another bash this afternoon. Just want to be sure I can do what's needed when I need it.

Me too, but there is currently no sign of any possibility of doing this anywhere in the Algarve. I shall await the call!

Meanwhile, packing my bags in case I have to be deported.

Make sure you get past the security guard on the door who was struggling with crowd control.  Get inside and say you have an appointment, preferably in Portuguese.

There is only one desk, one worker.  About 150 people milling around.  Get to the desk with your passport and tell them you have an appointment.  Try to ignore the hords who are doing other SEF stuff and trying to get to the desk too.

She will give you a piece of paper and a number.  The paper asks for Mother's name, Father's name, your address, your fiscal number, your social security number, your health centre number, your mobile number.  Fill it in leaving blank any numbers you don't have.  Don't worry if your details have changed in any way.  Wait your turn for your number to appear on the TV screen (we waited an hour).

Of all the desks only 3 are for the Biometric ID.  They copy the info you have written out onto the system, you don't need original documents.  Then photo and fingerprints.  For one of us it was smooth, the other not, computer says no and all that.  One has managed to generate payment form and paid and awaiting card, the other computer still says no.

Relatively easy.

Oh, and keep your current paper because your card will have a start date of the day of your appointment but they will honour your original start date, apparently, when you renew again.

Loja de Cidadao - Faro, comes up in Google maps as truly Faro 31km away.

The Espaco has slots available after Christmas and the Loja has slots available from 12th December onwards. So Perry was quick off the mark

Oh well it will only be a fraction of the emissions incurred by the Cop 27  conference 

Faro etc would have been easier but glad its sorted

I have been advised by others that I can rebook with a change of venue. When I received the second email from SEF I was offered only Lisbon and nothing before the 20th of December! So I booked the 22nd.

I shall try that this afternoon.

Without Portuguese residency a UK passport holder may only stay in Portugal for a maximium of 90 days in any 180 day period.

Went to Lisbon yesterday for my appointment. Simply couldn't get one closer, but I had a nice day out as well, so not bad. Whole thing took exactly 30 minutes from the time I walked in the door to the time I left, 22 minutes of which was waiting for my turn. Very efficient. I was pleasantly surprised, but I guess they are getting used to it now. No proofs requested except passport, just filled in a very simple form with NIF, Social Security, Cartão Utente numbers.

I was told it might be two months before I get my card.

It might be a bit delayed by Christmas  but hopefully well within the 8 weeks

Postman came with my new card on Tuesday, I wasn't in, collected Wednesday. Registered post, has to be signed for. Photo makes me look like a serial killer on the loose.

Advice - if your bank etc has your old residencia information logged among your personal data, you need to have that changed to the new one.  My bank (Millenium) had forewarned me some time back. That took me about 20 minutes at the local branch. There is no way to do it on line, you have to show them the card.

Then make a copy, upload to somewhere safe and keep a paper copy also.

Depends on your postman I guess...